Publications
The Flinn silk dyers of Dublin and Brighton, by Nicholas Fleischmann, published June 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 6, article, pp.288-292) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508973] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Out of the blue in the 1980s, my uncle Patrick Flinn received a letter asking for information about his branch of the FLINN family. The letter was from David Flinn, a retired businessman, who thought various FLINN families in the south, midlands and north-west, who were once active its the cloth and dyeing trades, might be related. He was looking in particular for links through Huguenot trading families, refugees from Catholic persecution in northern France and the Low Countries. We were interested in view of the family dyeing and cleaning business of Flinn & Son of Brighton, which had been founded in early Victorian times by FLINNs unknown.